Unusual cargo...

Stafford is home to Alstom which makes large electrical generators. So it isn’t unusual whilst driving along the local roads to be met with a ‘convoi exceptionnel’, complete with a stack of police outriders. Usually, it has to be said, this is at some kind of peak driving time and is always followed by an even longer convoy of irate motorists!

So I wasn’t surprised to meet a convoy yesterday on a journey along the A51 to Stone. As it approached Rhiannon realised that it wasn’t a generator but something altogether different.

Without any hesitation Rhiannon was ringing her father and telling him to drive out to the end of our lane with his camera.

This is what he saw…

It turned out to be an old Hercules transport aircraft on its way to the ‘knackers yard’. Tim did some research and found some interesting information and photographs of Hercules 301 in service on the Touchdown Aviation website.